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Re: Boulder Pledge



On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 11:08, Thomas Ritter wrote:
> Am Montag, 3. Februar 2003 19:11 schrieb Svein Ove Aas:
> >> > Good Web browsers can ignore colors and such in the HTML.
> >>
> >> Is there any? Not Mozilla, not Netscape, not Konqueror, not Opera...
> > It's perfectly possible to make it apply a custom CSS file to all pages,
> 
> oh, yes... but have you ever actually _used_ that? This Thread started about 
> aesthetics (different meanings of correctly wrapping lines in ASCII) and HTML 
> was mentioned to raise the look. When you apply custom settings to HTML 
> pages, they get really ugly, loosing readability. Think of 
> pixel-measure-sized tables layouted with very small font sizes which get 
> totally messed up when you change the font size.

So turn the setting off. 

> When users use colours to structurize documents, it gets confusing without 
> colours.

I've never seen that one.

> When users use images as dividers, not displaying them messes up readability.

When users use images as dividers, the <img> tag usually includes size
parameters. If image display is disabled, the placeholder should be (and
usually is) rendered with the appropriate size.

> You _can_ actually ignore some things, but because people _will_ use those 
> things anyone caring about readability will have to be a slave of other 
> people's bad taste and live with green text on pink background and that when 
> you are in the office and open the mail program to ask someone about 
> something he wrote, the first thing he might see is the newest SPAM-devilered 
> nakedness in your inbox. This doesn't look very professional, as you might 
> agree...

Actually, come to think of it, I've never seen an HTML email I care
about (i.e., not spam) that's unreadable without images, either.

Alex.

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